Updated On: 18 August, 2015 08:34 AM IST | | Agencies
<p>Set-to-be-released Paralympian, who was charged with culpable homicide, now battles appeal by SA prosecutors wanting to book him for 2013 murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp</p>

Oscar Pistorius with Reeva Steenkamp in 2012
Pretoria (South Africa): South African prosecutors filed an appeal yesterday calling for Paralympian star Oscar Pistorius to be convicted of murder for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp — just days before he is due to be released from prison.
Oscar Pistorius with Reeva Steenkamp in 2012. Pic/AFP
Pistorius has spent less than a year behind bars since being convicted in a sensational trial on the lesser charge of culpable homicide, and is expected to leave jail on Friday for a form of house arrest.